Cunevo, Italy - Village Photographs

Older residential house in Cunevo

Many of the houses in Cunevo have portions that are more than two hundred years old. Some of the features and walls were retained during remodelling and expansion. Note the wooden shutters and balcony is this old house.

During the early 1800's and prior, houses were given numbers rather than street addresses. Thus, you will notice in the church registers that a person lived at house No. 17 or house No. 23, etc. Often, two or three generations of a family lived in the same house. It was quite common for the house to pass to the oldest son upon the death of the parents.

Castel Corona

This is a view of the ruins of the ancient castle. Documented to the year 1217, Castel Corona was one of the characteristic fortress-type structures built into mountain caves. The name is derived from the Latin term "corona", which translates to "cavern on a rocky peak". Local legend states that the structure was used by ancient pagans as a refuge and for the practice of their rituals. It also served as a refuge for women and children during the invasions by the Gauls and Longobards. There is a belief that the structure was inhabited as late as 1617. Changing hands many times over the centuries, the land on which the castle stood was controlled by the IOB (de Job) family of Cunevo in the mid-1700's, and later transferred to the FERRARI family.